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Yance Ford is the director of Strong Island (2017) and winner of the Special Jury Award for Storytelling at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. Get push notifications with news, features and more. William’s brother, Yance, has channeled his grief and heartache into a new true crime documentary on Netflix, Strong Island, premiering on Sept. 15, which suggests racial bias was a crucial factor in the investigation’s outcome. — Scott Macaulay, Contact: strongislanddoc@gmail.com; 917-727-1731, Click here to read our Summer 2020 issue, featuring. [11][12][13] Strong Island is about the murder of his brother William Ford, which occurred in 1992. “I had been thinking, am I just going to be a gatekeeper or will I take the plunge and make the same sacrifices that all these people who I have been casting judgment on do?” And, on an aesthetic level, how would Ford filter out what she calls the “white noise” caused by watching so many documentaries each day? [10] Also in 2018, he and Joslyn Barnes were awarded an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking for producing Strong Island, which made him the first openly transgender man and the first black openly transgender person to win an Emmy award, as well as the first openly transgender filmmaker to win a Creative Arts Emmy. Strong Island, Yance Ford’s documentary about the death of his brother William in 1992, offers a searing indictment of the criminal justice system and the world that produced it. Stars Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Eddie Redmayne share their 5 reasons not to miss The Trial of the Chicago 7 on Netflix. • For more on director Yance Ford’s search for answers about his brother’s death, subscribe now to PEOPLE or pick up this week’s issue, on newsstands Friday. It was done in a style I’ve seen hundreds of times at POV.” More recently she began again, collaborating with her d.p., Alan Jacobsen, and from the looks of her current show reel, the film has found its powerful, rigorous voice.
Yance Ford at the 2017 Sundance Film Festival. And realizing that [such a crime] is, for better or worse, part of the American experience — I don’t think I as a younger filmmaker would have had the maturity, life experience or clarity to put that into a movie.”, Ford cites influences as diverse as the photographers William Eggleston and Gregory Crewdson, the sculptor Magdalena Abakanowicz, and the filmmaker and performance artist Marlon Riggs. The killing has tormented Ford’s family ever since: His father, William, had a stroke two years later, and his mother, Barbara, was left with debilitating health issues.
", about the media furor over the court case against Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich. William Ford Jr., a 24-year-old high school math teacher who’d been recently hailed as a hero for detaining an armed robber on the street, was shot and killed on April 7, 1992. Yance Ford is an African-American transgender producer and director. He was nominated for his work on Strong Island (2017). Yance Ford is a Sundance Institute Fellow, a Creative Capital Grantee and featured in Filmmaker Magazine’s 25 New Faces of Independent Film. [8][9] As such, he was the first openly transgender man to be nominated for any Academy Award, and the first openly transgender director to be nominated for any Academy Award.
She moved back to her hometown New York, worked as a p.a. “I took what I had and I have turned it into something bigger, because I had to make his death mean something.”. “I had an image of myself in my mind as a working artist, and when he died, all of that changed.” By her senior year, Ford, who made images as a photographer, decided she wanted to make a film about her brother’s death. Yance Ford, Other Works Lauren Greenfield’s Girl Culture Films Boosts Roster With Dawn Porter, ‘The Breaker Uppers’ Duo, Adds Screening Series, ‘Disclosure’ Director Sam Feder Signs With Gersh And Luber Roklin Entertainment, What to Watch if You Miss the "Game of Thrones" Cast. [10] Also in 2018, he and Joslyn Barnes were awarded an Emmy for Exceptional Merit in Documentary Filmmaking for producing Strong Island, which made him the first openly transgender man and the first black openly transgender person to win an Emmy award, as well as the first openly transgender filmmaker to win a Creative Arts Emmy. And makes history as the first transgender Oscar nominee. He is a former series producer of POV, a graduate of Hamilton College and the Production Workshop at Third World Newsreel. Alma mater: Hamilton College: Occupation: Director, film producer: Early life. Ford has also placed herself in her movie, even as she admits that she doesn’t like being on camera. His killer? Another He was nominated for his work on, View agent, publicist, legal and company contact details on IMDbPro. | Ford graduated from Hamilton College in 1994. [8][9] As such, he was the first openly transgender man to be nominated for any Academy Award, and the first openly transgender director to be nominated for any Academy Award. Yance Ford was a sophomore at Hamilton College 19 years ago when her brother was murdered. “I had an image of myself in my mind as a working artist, and when he died, all of that changed.” Strong Island is an American 2017 true-crime documentary film directed by Yance Ford. I will never know that person and never be that person,” Yance tells PEOPLE. “My brother, William, wasn’t perfect but he was human, and his humanity is the thing that was denied him from the beginning of the process through the end.”. I wouldn’t have been able to make this film when I was 21. Er is in totaal 16 keer op deze film gestemd, met een gemiddelde van 2,53 sterren. “My brother’s death picked up my life and put it down somewhere else,” Ford says. [9], He has also received a Creative Capital Award, and a Sundance Documentary Film Program Fellowship.[6].
", about the media furor over the court case against Governor of Illinois Rod Blagojevich. Publicity Listings Yance Ford is an African-American transgender producer and director. She still remembers the moment when, after she had been doing the job for a few years, she had a conversation with an influential colleague. [11][12][13] Strong Island is about the murder of his brother William Ford, which occurred in 1992. Ford is a grantee of the Sundance Institute Documentary Film Program, a MacDowell Colony fellow, a Creative Capital Grantee (Theo Westenberger Award), and has been featured in Filmmaker Magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film. Beginning in 2002 he worked as a series producer at PBS for ten years. “This film allowed me to interrogate and ask questions,” he explains. “But if it works for the movie, I’m just going to have to deal with it.”, Of her collaborators, Ford comments, “I started working with [producer] Esther Robinson in February, 2009, and she really helped create the space to pursue my vision for Strong Island. The investigation into William’s shooting death is officially considered closed — though, with Strong Island, it is not forgotten. Then in 2002 she became series producer at POV, where she screens all the submissions and runs the PBS documentary series’ open call.
“William’s death killed his family along with their dreams and aspirations.”.
[3][4][5][6], In 2011 he was named one of Filmmaker magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film. [5] He also received the 2011–2012 Fledgling Fund Fellowship at MacDowell. and took a Third World Newsreel production workshop. Reilly, who is white, was arrested for manslaughter but he claimed self-defense in the altercation at the shop with Ford, who was black. First openly transgender person (and filmmaker) and the first black openly transgender person to be nominated for an Academy Award.
[3][4][5][6], In 2011 he was named one of Filmmaker magazine's 25 New Faces of Independent Film.
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